Forget crowd-funding, startups are now turning to crowd ownership campaigns. Hong Kong-based travel startup, Spottly, is currently running a crowd ownership campaign on RocketClub, a platform offering startup shares, to offer a 2% ownership stake in the company to its user community. Last weekend, it became the first company to reach its initial goal on the platform of 1,000 supporters.

Charlotte Chen, the co-founder and chief marketing officer at Spottly, said her company would look into the opportunity presented by the programming interface. Hong Kong-based Spottly provides a travel app for users to find, collect and share their favourite places in the world.

This app finally puts all your food and tourist snaps to good use as way to share and recommend restaurants or places of interest. Launched in November 2013, Spottly allows users to record of their favourite finds with a picture, brief description and location...

This app will make your Apple Watch a great travel companion. Instead of swiping through your phone furiously like a confused tourist, Spottly on Apple Watch is much more discrete. After saving your favourite locations in the Spottly iPhone app, the Watch

Social media nowadays is full of video and photos of vacations but do the people you know really pay attention to it. After all your posts on Facebook won't really help them in their next trip. Spottly is a Chinese startup that aims to be the...

12. Spottly Have the travel bug, and want an easier way to share your discoveries? Spottly is a free Iphone app that launched in late 2013, and has quickly become the go-to travel app featured as “Best New App” 5 times on iTunes. The app allows users to

Spottly also chiming in on the Apple Watch Spottly, a Hong-Kong based service for finding nearby places of interest, has also developed an app for Apple Watch. The app notifies users if they are nearby an already saved place and provides walking direction

With Apple’s hotly-anticipated smartwatch coming to us this month, and the opening of App Store submissions for developers last week, all bets are off regarding which apps will soon be coming to your wrist. For now, here’s one app you won’t need to wonder

Indeed, several companies have already been launched by General Assembly graduates including: the on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service, Washio; the social travel app, Spottly (which is backed by 500 Startups); Picfair, an image marketplace backed by

SPOTTLY– This free iPhone app makes it easy for you to bookmark and “save” your favorite finds while traveling. The app boasts more than 21,000 places, 2,600 cities and 125 countries, allowing you to create your very own digital scrapbook of all your trav

New mobile app Spottly is a travel wishlist on speed. It lets you keep track and save all of the places you want to visit, but also gives you suggestions on cool hangouts, hot restos and bars or hidden gems based on listings created by fellow users. It’s

Find Local Haunts Sick of being led to tourist-y spots? Plan your adventure wherever you’re holidaying with Spottly. Somewhat like a Pinterest board for travelling, you can browse through numerous spots posted by residents and tourists alike, and save the

Tourists love to share their pictures on social media platforms. And with a smartphone, they can do it almost instantly. Spottly is one of many social travel applications but it stands out with its amazing sharing functions. "As more and more people use s

Planning your next trip and want to be sure you find the best sightseeing, the best roadside restaurants and the best accommodation? Guess what. There's an app for that. There are also apps for saving money at the airport and packing more efficiently.

Hip travel app, Spottly, celebrated the launch of their Spottly Insider magazine with a fabuolus party at Elephant Grounds’ in Sheung Wan last Friday (14 November 2014). Guests enjoyed mint ice-cream sandwiches and small burgers while mingling outside on the cozy terrace at the back of the store.

Edwyn is the Founder and Chief Everything Officer of Spottly; which aims to re-imagine travel guides for the social mobile era thru socially curated travel recommendations - See more at: http://startupgrind.com/event/startup-grind-bangkok-hosted-edwyn-cha

Are you ready for the amazing journey upcoming October? This month we will interview Edwyn Chan, co-founder of Spottly, one of the most popular social travel apps. Launched in Hong Kong, Spottly has just recently raised US$850K, from 500 Start

This hot newcomer from Hong Kong is a crowdsourced series of lively travel guides. With a few swift taps, you can access hundreds of picturebased guides created by users all over the globe, oriented around different cities and themes. The guides, which ar

"The next generation travel guide will need to be curated, instant and visual." said Edwyn Chan, co-founder of Spottly, a one-year old social travel app based in Hong Kong. With a seed round of US$850k backed by 500 Startups, Cherubic Ventures...

... in seed round funding to develop the first social travel app focusing on video content. It's investors in the round include Silicon Valley based incubator 500Startups, Cherubic Ventures, Gobi Partners and a number of individual angel investors. ...

Spottly raises US$850K, to use funds for expansion and app development 18/09/2014, by WIT, in Mobile Hong Kong-based social travel app, Spottly, has raised US$850,000 in seed round funding from investors that include Silicon Valley-based...

New social travel site, Spottly, goes for picture-based reviews 08/07/2014, by James Chen, in Start Ups A social travel site in Asia has lofty aims of being the largest user generated travel platform in Asia. With competitors like TripAdvisor,...

Charlotte Chen is the Co-Founder and CMO of , a travel journal app that's been featured in the and . Charlotte is also a graduate of our in Hong Kong where she created Spottly's digital marketing plan. We caught up with Charlotte on all of the...

On May 17, Hong Kong's newest mobile travel app Spottly will launch at the one-day Chai Wan Mei Village, which hopes to bring together the best of Hong Kong's creative scene. An official event organised in collaboration with Spottly, Tangram and...

The Spottly app for iOS enables users to create their own travel journal (think of it as a Pinterest for places), allowing anyone to create and share their travel notes for places they've been to or destinations they want to explore in the...

Remember Spottly, one of the top 10 startups who showcased at our past Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013? Right after the event, the app was featured on App Store’s “Best New Apps” in 15 markets across Asia (Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singap

When check-in is no longer fun to you or your friends, what else are you willing to share related to location and places you’ve been to? Today we are introducing you a new social travel app which was featured on App Store’s “Best New Apps” in 15 markets a

This app lets you create your own Instagram-like travel journal. What it does: Uses your smartphone and desktop photos and your own notes to make personal travel bucket lists. Lazy? You can use photos from the Internet or re-post other people's notes.

Backed up by 500 Startups, Spottly is a social travel app which works like a Pinterest for interesting places. Based on Foursquare’s open API, users can easily add travel notes or mark interesting places by snapping photos. Though the check-in fashion is

Avid traveller or novice adventurer, look out. Spottly is a new travel journal app to fulfil your heart's yearning for places Not everyone can afford to satisfy a bad case of wanderlust. Some of us would instead sit at home, smartphone in hand,...

Launched this Friday, Spottly functions like a ‘Pinterest for places’ and wants to extend the curation-as-content principle into the realm of travel with its new iOS app. In April, the company received funding from 500 Startups’s Beijing branch, led by Rui Ma.

The past few years have seen the emergence of apps and platforms on which users can post, curate, and share content while following the broad ethos of "these are a few of my favorite things." The most influential of these has been Pinterest...

The company has invested in 9Gag, a website which shares memes or viral internet photos –the most successful start-up from Hong Kong. Recently, it injected funds into another local start-up Spottly, a social platform that makes it easy for people to create